Strong's Lexicon
G4624 — σκανδαλίζω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4624 |
|---|---|
| Word: | σκανδαλίζω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G4625 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 29 |
| Transliteration: | skandalizo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | skan-dal-id'-zo |
| Meaning: | 1. to entrap, i.e. trip up 2. (figuratively) to stumble 3. (causitive) to entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure |
| KJV Renderings: | (make to) offend |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σκανδαλίζω; 1 aorist ἐσκανδαλισα; passive, present σκανδαλίζομαι; imperfect ἐσκανδαλιζομην; 1 aorist ἐσκανδαλίσθην (cf. Buttmann, 52 (45)); 1 future σκανδαλισθήσομαι; (σκάνδαλον); Vulg.scandalizo; Peshitto lSK) []; properly, to put a stumbling-block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall; to be a stumbling-block; in the N. T. always metaphorically, (R. V. to cause or make to stumble; A. V. to offend (cause to offend));
a. to entice to sin (Luth. ärgern, i. e. arg, bös machen): τινα, Mat 5:29 (); f; Mark 9:42f, 45, 47; Luk 17:2; 1Co 8:13; passive Latinoffendor (A. V. to be offended), Vulg.scandalizor, Peshitto lSK []: Rom 14:21 (R G L Tr text); 2Co 11:29 (R. V. is made to stumble; cf. Winers Grammar, 153 (145)).
b. "to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey; to cause to fall away," and in the passive, to fall away (R. V. to stumble (cf. ’Teaching etc. 16, 5 [ET]; Hermas, vis. 4, 1, 3 [ET]; mand. 8, 10 [ET])): τινα, Joh 6:61; passive, Mat 13:21; Mat 24:10; Mat 26:33; Mar 4:17; Mar 14:29; (Joh 16:1); ἐν τίνι (A. V.) to be offended in one, (find occasion of stumbling in), i. e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority: Mat 11:6; Mat 13:57; Mat 26:31; Mar 6:3; Mar 14:27; Luk 7:23; to cause one to judge unfavorably or unjustly of another, Mat 17:27. Since the man who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed, σκανδαλίζω means c. to cause one to feel displeasure at a thing; to make indignant: τινα, passive, to be displeased, indignant (A. V. offended), Mat 15:12. The verb σκανδαλίζω is found neither in secular authors nor in the Sept., but only in the relies of Aq.’s version of the O. T., Psa 63:9 (); Isa 8:15; (xl. 30); Pro 4:12 for ëÈÌùÇÑì; besides in Sir 9:5 Sir 23:8 Sir 35:15 (Sir 32:15); (Psalt. Psa 16:1-11; Psa 7:1-17. Cf. Winer’s Grammar, 33.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
σκανδαλίζω ((make to) offend)
Matthew 5:29
- KJV: And if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into hell
- GK: ει δε ο οφθαλμός σου ο δεξιός σκανδαλίζει σε έξελε αυτόν και βάλε από σου συμφέρει γαρ σοι ίνα απόληται εν των μελών σου και μη όλον το σώμά σου βληθή εις γέενναν
Matthew 5:30
- KJV: And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into hell
- GK: και ει η δεξιά σου χείρ σκανδαλίζει σε έκκοψον αυτήν και βάλε από σου συμφέρει γαρ σοι ίνα απόληται εν των μελών σου και μη όλον το σώμά σου βληθή εις γέενναν
Matthew 11:6
- KJV: And blessed is who soever shall not be offended in me
- GK: και μακάριός εστιν ος εάν μη σκανδαλισθή εν εμοί
Matthew 13:21
- KJV: Yet hath he not root in himself but dureth for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he is offended
- GK: ουκ έχει δε ρίζαν εν εαυτώ αλλά πρόσκαιρός εστι γενομένης δε θλίψεως η διωγμού διά τον λόγον ευθύς σκανδαλίζεται
Matthew 13:57
- KJV: And they were offended in him But Jesus said unto them A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and in his own house
- GK: και εσκανδαλίζοντο εν αυτώ ο δε Ιησούς είπεν αυτοίς ουκ έστι προφήτης άτιμος ει εν τη πατρίδι αυτού και εν τη οικία αυτού
Matthew 15:12
- KJV: Then came his disciples and said unto him Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying
- GK: τότε προσελθόντες οι μαθηταί αυτού είπον αυτώ οίδας ότι οι Φαρισαίοι οι ακούσαντες τον λόγον εσκανδαλίσθησαν
Matthew 17:27
- KJV: Notwithstanding lest we should offend them go thou to the sea and cast an hook and take up the fish that first cometh up and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt find a piece of money that take and give unto them for me and thee
- GK: ίνα δε μη σκανδαλίσωμεν αυτούς πορευθείς εις την θάλασσαν βάλε άγκιστρον και τον αναβαίνοντα πρώτον ιχθύν άρον και ανοίξας το στόμα αυτού ευρήσεις στατήρα εκείνον λαβών δος αυτοίς αντί εμού και σου
Matthew 18:6
- KJV: But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were drowned in the depth of the sea
- GK: ος δ΄ αν σκανδαλίση ένα των μικρών τούτων των πιστευόντων εις εμέ συμφέρει αυτώ ίνα κρεμασθή μύλος ονικός επί τον τράχηλον αυτού και καταποντισθή εν τω πελάγει της θαλάσσης
Matthew 18:8
- KJV: Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee cut them off and cast from thee it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire
- GK: ει δε η χειρ σου η ο πους σου σκανδαλίζει σε έκκοψον αυτά και βάλε από σου καλόν σοι εστίν εισελθείν εις την ζωήν χωλόν η κυλλόν η δύο χείρας η δύο πόδας έχοντα βληθήναι εις το πυρ το αιώνιον
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